Never forget to put down these devices and take a good look around.

Absrtact: In the past 17, curious hat's founder, Luca Prasso, has been involved in the creation of famous DreamWorks Animation films, such as Shrek, Kung Fu Panda and Dragon Tamer, as the relevant technical director. Now he put himself in 25 years of computer graphics and animated films produced by

In the past 17, curious hat founder Luca Prasso as the relevant technical director of the "Shrek", "Kung Fu Panda", "Training Dragon Master" and other famous dream factory animation film creation. Now he has taken his 25 years of experience in computer graphics and animated filmmaking to curious Hat, working with another former DreamWorks engineer, Erwan Maigret, to create mobile apps that are more interactive and authentic for children than animated movies, but also full of imagination and gaming fun. In Luca's words, curious hat makes products with only two core goals-"connect the child to the real world" and "let the parents integrate into the experience".

Color Vacuum (pictured above) is the first app in Curious hat, designed to be a 200-year-old color bottle, when a child takes an iphone or ipad to target an object with a camera, the app instantly distinguishes its three primary colors (red, green, blue), And using three small bottles to dynamically display the different colors of different objects; If the child likes this color, you can click the blue button in the lower right corner to collect it, and a water droplet of the same color will float in the bottle; the child can also search for the collected colors and complete certain tasks. The app tries to guide children to more real things, with curiosity and understanding of color and nature.

Phlip is the second series of apps that also needs to touch the real world, to understand things in game interaction and to develop logical thinking. The first step is to take an interesting picture (object or scene), and then select the number of tiles to split the picture (the more difficult the number of higher), by rotating the device clockwise or counterclockwise to the position of the tile to restore the picture. Phlip can invite friends or family members to accept Jigsaw challenges or save pictures to a local album.

Eye-paint lets children paint drawings with eyes and mobile camera cameras. First pick a sketch, like a cartoon dragon, and click on its head, that part will be converted into a camera is taking the picture, if the children feel that the floor color is the ideal color of the cartoon head, you can point to the floor of the camera button, the floor color will be used, the other parts of the same method of coloring, but also can have different texture , textures (according to the things taken). This series of apps also encourages children to go out into the world, to touch things, to combine reality with creativity, and to match colors with their imaginations.

Remember that there was a very hot video on YouTube before a 1-year-old kid got used to the ipad's touch and tried to click the page or zoom in with a small hand when facing a print magazine. Computer technology has had a deep blood impact on our generation and even the younger generation, and the question is how to use such techniques and tools to guide and educate children from a positive perspective--this is the present and the future. Curious hat is doing such a thing.

"What we create is not the game, but the tool of discovery." "One of the most important things that these apps and mobile devices have to teach children is," Luca, "never forget to put down these devices and take a good look around." ”